History of Clinton County, Ohio Its People, Industries, and Institutions, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, Part 89

Author: Albert J. Brown (A.M.)
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago : W.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1108

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ELIJAH P. STOTLER.

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they purchased a large tract of land in Morgan county, West Virginia, and made their future home on this. This land eventually became very valuable coal land.

Elijah Stotler was a blacksmith by trade and had a very large blacksmith-shop on his farm in West Virginia. He employed a number of men in this shop and acted as overseer while his sons cultivated the farm. He was a fine smith and was noted for his careful workmanship. At the time of his death, Elijah P., the subject of this sketch, was only four years old. He left, at his death, a family of nine children, the eldest of whom was but nine years old, and very little means to sustain them; but his widow was of that brave type that has no fear and she kept the family together and reared all of the children to excellent citizenship. She was a life-long member of the Methodist church and instilled her Christian character into her children. The following children were born to Elijah and Evann ( Spillman) Stotler; Julia Anne, who is the widow of Isaac Whistner and who lives at Cumberland, Maryland; Amanda, who died in 1898 and who was the wife of Peter Whistner: Margaret A., who is the widow of C. W. Cross and who lives at Franklin, Ohio; George W., who lived in West Virginia and who died In 1906: Jacob and Esau, twins, who lived on their father's home place in West Vir- ginia, until the death of Jacob, who was killed in a saw-mill in 1872; Peter D., a farmer who lives at Roundhead, Highland county, Ohio; Elnora, who died in 1856 at the age of nine; Elijah P., the subject of this sketch, and N. M., a farmer who lives in Greene county, neur Bowersville.

Elijah P. Stotler had very little opportunity for securing an education. There were no free schools in West Virginia before the Civil War and whatever education he had was picked up along the way. His mother was very strict but at the same time very kind, and helped her children in every way she possibly could. They struggled along. as best they could, in West Virginia until in 1863, Jacob decided to locate in Clinton county, and here he was so successful, that the remainder of the family came, at differ- ent times, and located. Elijah P. and his mother came in 1869 and settled on a farm where he worked for nine years for James Wilson in Union township and three years for Asa Starbuck and others. He attributes his present successful financial condition and bis unusual general education to both the training of his mother and to the high ideals and Christian associations which he found in the Wilson and Starbuck families

Elijah P. Stotler was first married to Sarah Elizabeth Brann on February 20, 1881. She was born on May 10, 1851, on the farm where Mr. Stotler now lives, and died here on April 26, 1911. She was the daughter of Tillman and Rebecca Brann, who were early settlers in Union township, Clinton county, having emigrated there from North Carolina. Mrs. Stotler inherited sixty-two acres of the Brann homestead and she and her husband settled on this at the time of their marriage; later Mr. Stotler purchased the remainder of the Brann estate, including the Brann dwelling and other buildings, and in 1900 he bullt a beautiful country home where he still lives In 1896 his present large barn was built. He also owns ninety-eight acres at the corner of Richland, Wayne and Union townships. He is recognized as one of the most thorough and up-to-date farmers in the county, and his fine flock of Delaine sheep are unequalled anywhere.

After the death of his first wife in 1911, he remained a widower until on Decem- ber 26, 1914. when he was married to Mrs. Rebecca (Atley) Reed. She was the daughter of Jobn and Evaline Atley and was born near Starbuck, in Union township.

Mr. Stotler has but one child, a daughter by his first wife, whose name is Elvenia Prudence. She was born on February 10, 1893, and is the wife of Clifford Pond. They live on the farm with Mr. Stotler and help him farm. They have three children : Will- lam Denver, who was born on October 9, 1010; Mary Elizabeth, June 12, 1912, and Cleo Rebecen, April 22, 1914.

Elijah P. Stotler is one of Clinton county's most highly-respected citizens. He Is a deacon in the New Antioch Christian church and has held the position of school

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director in his district for the last fifteen years. Ilis life is an example to those who have to struggle and many times he has related the incidents of his career, which seemed almost unsurmountable obstacles. His vivid recollections of the incidents of the hor- rors of the Civil War are extremely realistic, although a lad of only twelve years. His mother's house was on the main pike which leads to Washington, D. C .. and Stonewall Jackson's army marched down this road to take the Baltimore & Ohio train which ran from Winchester to Washington, D. C. His mother's house was used as a hospital and all her stock was shot for food, and he witnessed all of this.

ANDREW JACKSON PATE.

Andrew Jackson Pate, a prosperous farmer of Clark township. Clinton county, Ohlo, who was born In Stony township, Clermont county, Ohlo, February 8, 1848, and is the son of Christopher and Matilda Jane (South) Pate, the former of whom was a native of North Carolina, born near New-Berne, and the latter a native of Stony township. Cler- mont county. His paternal grandparents died in North Carolina. His maternal grand- parents, John and Elizabeth ( Hill) South, were natives of Clermont county, Ohio. The latter was a daughter of Samuel Hill, a pioneer of Clermont county,

Christopher Pate received a limited education in the schools of North Carolina and came to Ohlo at the age of nineteen years, in 1837. He located in Clermont county, where he was engaged in farming until his death. He and his wife reared a large family of children, consisting of nine sons and one daughter. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Andrew Jackson Pate received his education In Clermont county and took up farm- ing in that county. He owned twenty-five aeres in Clermont county until 1894. when he moved to a farm one mile west of Martinsville, where he lived for nine years. In 1903 he purchased ninety-seven acres of land in Clark township, where he now lives. Some time ago, Mr. Pate erected a substantial barn. He is engaged in general farming and has been successful.

On November 13, 1573, Andrew Jackson Pate was married to Amanda E. Ross, of Clermont county, the daughter of William Ross, a native of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Pate have been the parents of two children. Blanche and Georgia, the latter of whom is deceased. Blanche is the wife of Rev. Russell C. Moon, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church at Lewisburg. Ohio.

While still living in Clermont county, Mr. Pate served as township trustee of Jack- son township. He was formerly a member of the Free and Accepted Masons.

JOHN F. TRUITT.

John F. Truitt, a successful farmer of Clark township. was horn on Derember 8. 1558, at New Vienna. Clinton county, Ohio, a son of Benjamin and Rebecca ( Applegate) Truitt. both of whom were natives of this county.

The paternal grandparents of Mr. Truitt were William Truitt and wife, natives of Maryland, who located near New Vienna, where they followed farming. The maternal grandparents were William and Hester ( Moore) Applegate, the former of whom was a native of Pennsylvania. He located near Wilmington, about four miles east of that city and there engaged in forming. He died in Wilmington.

Benjamin Truitt received the rudiments of an education in the schools of Clinton county. and after leaving school engaged in farming in Green township. Later he removed to I'nion township, where he owned seventy neres of land. This farm was situated near Sligo, and it was here that he lived at the time of his death. Benjamin Truitt and his family were all earnest members of the Christian church. He reared a family of twelve children.

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has always been a farmer. He purchased the farm where he now Ilves in 1011, which consists of one hundred and forty-seven acres of fertile land, and here, besides carrying on general farming. Mr. Truitt has also engaged extensively in raising Poland China hogs, in which line he has been very successful.

On November 20, 1885, John F. Truitt was married to Susan Glass, a native of Clinton county, and a daughter of John and Catherine Glass; and to this union have been born six children. Ora Catherine, Louise Rebecca, Frank Wilson, Ada Glass, Robert William and Donald Eugene.

Mr. and Mrs. Truitt and family are all members of the Christian church, Mir. Truitt is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees.

CHARLES ADDISON HENRY.

Good farming means many things. Fundamentally. perhaps, it means that the largest possible revenue is being obtained from a given number of acres. But "the largest possible revenue" has a very broad meaning. In the first place it means the farmer must raise the greatest number of hogs, cattle, sheep and perhaps horses for which the soil will produce forage. There is distinctive advantage in raising purebred stock, as many farmers have completely demonstrated, and. furthermore, the care given to live stock will determine in a very great degree the volume of revenue to be obtained. Good farming of course means that crops will be rotated. that seed beds will be carefully prepared and corn, especially, frequently and well cultivated. In fact the aspects of good farming are almost innumerable. The fortunate thing is that a few young farmers, as for instance. Charles Addison Henry, of Union township, thoroughly appreciate what good farming involves. Not only does Mr. Henry appreciate what it Involves, but he is one man who acts upon bis information and knowledge. He is thoroughly up-to-date in his methods of farming and is far above the average in Intelligence and skill.

Charles Addison Henry was born on January 22, 1870, near Gunnerville, in Greene county, Obio, and is the son of the late William and Julia A. (Pidgeon) Henry, the former of whom was born near Harveysburg, In Warren county, Ohio, January 31. 1838, and died on September 10, 1906, and the latter of whom was born on May 27, 1838. in Guilford county. North Carolina, near High Point and fifteen miles from Greensboro, the daughter of Charles and Catherine ( Horney) Pidgeon.

William Henry was the son of John and Catherine (Stump) Henry, the former of whom was born in the Shenandoah valley of Virginia, in 1798, and died in 1870, and the latter of whom was born in Frederick county, Virginia, In 1805, and died in 1887. John Henry came from Virginia to Ohlo when a young man. His father was killed when John was a baby and John was reared by his aunt. He settled in Warren county. and owned a good farm near Harveysburg. In 18544 he purchased land in Union town- ship, where he lived until his death. He and his wife were members of the Christian church and bad a family of ten children, as follows: Daniel. of Wilmington; William, the father of Charles A .; Jonas and John. deceased; Tilby, the wife of William Fisher, of nenr Port William; Retta. decensed, who was the wife of Quince Harris: Libby, who died unmarried : Frances, who married James Fisher, of Wilmington; Reese, who died unmarried; Joshua, who was twice married and is deceased. William and Julia A. ( Pidgeon) Heury were devout members of the Friends church. She is still living and active in church affairs. He was a well-known stock breeder. He was prominent in Democratic polities early in life, although he voted the Prohibition ticket in Inter years,

Mrs, Julia A. (Pidgeon) Henry. the mother of Charles Addison, is a native of Gull- ford county, North Carolina. Her father. Charles Pidgeon. Jr., was born on March 1, 1806, and died on July 26, 1895. Her mother. Catherine (Horney) Pidgeon, was born on September 23, 1810, and died on December 27, 1856. They were both natives of Stokes county, North Carolina. Isaac Pidgeon, the maternal great-great-grandfather of

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Charles Addison Henry, was a strict Quaker who came to America from Ireland in 1740 on account of religious persecution, and settled in Chowan county, North Carolina. His son, Charles Pidgeon, Sr., married Elizabeth Crews, November 11, 1780. She was a native of Virginia and died in the early forties. Her husband died in 1854. They had twelve children. Charles Pidgeon, Jr .. and Catherine Horney were married on October 8, 1820, in North Carolina. Being northern sympathizers, at the outbreak of the Civil War, they immigrated to Ohio, arriving in Clinton county In the fall of 1861. They had twelve children : Emily, decensed, married John Briggs; Mary, married Wallace Mack, of Virginia; John, a Quaker minister of Orchard Grove, married Caroline Thompson ; Hannah, married William Charles and both are deceased; Julia A., 1s Mr. Henry's mother; Samuel, is a school teacher and farmer at Jamestown, Ohio; David, is a resi- dent of California ; Jeffrey, died in infancy ; Charles Addison, for whom the subject of this sketch was named, was a school teacher who died unmarried at the age of twenty-six; Heury, is a farmer of Union township; Cornelia, married Bruce Sprague, of Union township; Louisa, married Aden Starbuck.

Charles Addison Henry is one of three children boru to his parents. The others were Junius Avery, born on December 29, 1871, who is a farmer in I'nion township and who married Augusta Fisher; and William A., born on November 9, 1876, who died on September 20, 1909.

Charles Addison Henry attended the district schools of Clinton county lu Union township and later became a student at Wilmington College. He assisted his father on the farm until his marriage and was then engaged in farming his father's farm In Wilson township for two years. After that be removed to another of his father's farms near Haws Chapel in I'nion township and at his death be inherited that farm of one hundred and ten acres. Inter he purchased one hundred and five acres out of the John T. Henry farm near the "Dutch" district school house in U'nion township. It is upon this farm that he now lives. Mr. Henry has a splendid new house and convenient outbuildings and makes a specialty of raising purebred Shorthorn cattle and sells them for breeding purposes. He also feeds a large number of cattle and hogs for the market.

On December 25, 1892, Charles Addison Henry was married to Marguerite Vander- vort, who was born in Greene township. Clinton county, Ohio, the daughter of John M. and Mary Vandervort.

John M. Vandervort for many years was one of the leading nurserymen of Clinton county and owned a large farm and nursery at New Antioch, Green township. He died In 1914. His widow survives.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Addison Henry are the parents of three children: Guy Van- dervort, born on December 2. 1893; Robert. April 26. 1506, and Pauline, August 26, 1898.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry belong to the Central Church of Christ of Wilmington. Mr. Henry Is identified with the Democratic party.

JAMES G. WORRELL.

James G. Worrell is a successful farmer of Clark township, who was born in Gallia county. Ohio, in 1800, the son of Granville and Louisa ( Hubbard) Worrell, both natives of the eastern part of West Virginia. His paternal grandparents lived and died in Virginia, his paternal grandfather being James Worrell. His maternal grandfather. Samuel Hubbard, was a native of Mercer county, West Virginia, where he lived and died.

Granville Worrell was educated in the pioneer subscription schools of Carroll county. West Virginia, and was married in that county. After his marriage, he moved to Gallia county. Ohio, during the Civil War, living there until abont 1570. when he returned to West Virginia and settled on the Kannwha river. He lived along the river for several years and died in Nicholas county, West Virginia, as did also his wife. Having been drafted as a soldier in the Confederate army, be later deserted the Confederate cause

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and, after immigrating to Ohio, enlisted in an Ohio regiment of the Union army, serving until the close of the war. He was a drummer in his regiment and considered a good musician. In all of his services be was not wounded nor taken prisoner. Granville and Louisa Worrell were the parents of twelve children. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Educated in the schools of West Virginia, James G. Worrell began life for himself at the age of seventeen years and at that time immigrated to Farmers Station, Clinton county, where he worked by the month from the time he was seventeen until be was twenty-nine. Upon reaching the age of twenty-nine, he began renting land. In the fall of 1001, Mr. Worrell purchased a farm of ninety-five acres, seventy in the tract where he now lives and twenty-five nearby. Later, however, he sold the twenty-five acres and in 1915 bought twenty-nine acres near his home farm of seventy acres. He is engaged in general farming and stock raising.

On November 9, 1804, James G. Worrell was married to Eva Speaight, a native of Washington township and the daughter of George W. and Nancy Ellen (Borning) Speaight, both natives of this section.

The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Worrell were George and Polly Speaight, prob- ably natives of Virginia and early settlers of this section. They were extensive land- owners. Her maternal grandparents were William and Surah Borning, who lived near New Antioch. Mrs. Worrell's father left the old home farm eight years before his death and moved to Grant county, Indiana, where he and his wife lived for some time. They had nine children, eight of whom grew to maturity. They were members of the Baptist church.

To Mr. and Mrs. James G. Worrell has been born one child, Florena. Mr. and Mrs. Worrell are active members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

FRANK W. HAWORTH.

The Haworth family in Clinton county dutes from about the last year of the eighteenth century aud for more than one hundred years, therefore, has been prominent in amost every phase of life in this county. Frank W. Haworth, a well-to-do farmer of Union township, is a representative probably of the fifth generation of the family in this county. He is recognized today as one of the leading citizens of Union township, and is a capable and skillful farmer. The founders of the Haworth family in America were members of the Society of Friends, who accompanied' William Penn to this country, and the religion of the fathers has prevalled down to the latest generation.

Frank W. Haworth was born on the farm where he now lives, situated on the Prairie road in Union township, Clinton county, Ohio, May 6, 1864, the son of George D., Jr., and Rebecca L. (Hogue) Haworth, the former of whom was born on April 19, 1828, in Wilmington, and who died on April 19, 1895, and the latter of whom was born in 1832. in the Dover neighborhood of Union township, and who died on May 15, 1903.

George Haworth, who established the Haworth family in Clinton county, was the grandson of another George Haworth, who came to America with William Penn from Lancashire, England, in 1099. George Haworth's father was James Haworth, the son of the first George, a native of Pennsylvania, but who removed to Frederick county, Virginia, where the second George also removed as a lad. He was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1748. He married Susannah. Dillon. The family settled near Win- chester, Virginia. Later they immigrated to the region of the Yadkin river, in North Carolina, near the home of Daniel Boone. On September 25, 1771, the family followed Boone into Kentucky. The first attempt to settle in Kentucky was repelled by the Indians, after which a temporary settlement was made in Tennessee. After numerous excursions to North Carolina from Greenville, Tennessee, they left their home in that state for Ohio, in 1803, and made a settlement on Todd's fork not far from the Center

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meeting house. Mr. Haworth bought seventeen hundred and fifty acres of land. A year Inter his son, Mahlon, brought his family from Tennessee and settled on a nearby farm. After some years several members of the family immigrated to the state of Illinois and George Haworth himself sold out and removed with his two youngest sons to Quaker Point, near Georgetown, in Vermillion county. George Haworth was a member of the Society of Friends and in later years a minister. About 1507, or 1808, he traveled on horseback to Baltimore to attend the yearly meeting as a representative from the Miami quarterly meeting.

In 1800 Mablon Haworth, the son of George Haworth, who settled on Todd's fork In 1803, visited Ohio on a prospecting tour and in 1804 he and his family, in company with John and James Wright and their families, made their way northward from Tennessee to the wilderness of southern Oblo. On the trip northward Mahlon Haworth rode the wheelhorse, carrying an infant in his arms. This child, then two years old, was his daughter, Susannah. There were also three other children older than she, Rebecca, George D. and Ezeklel.

George D. Haworth, the son of Mahlon Haworth, was the grandfather of Frank W., the subject of this sketch. His mother was Phebe Frazier. At the time the family enme to Obio he was seven years old. having been born in Greene county, Tennessee, May 29. 1797. He died in Wilmington on June 27, 1881. at the age of eighty-four years and twenty-nine days. His early years were spent in assisting his father in the forest to open the land for cultivation. In 1815 he accompanied bis grandfather. the first George, to Detrolt to collect for a drove of hogs which he had sold in 1811. In 1817 George D. Haworth was married to Edith Hadley, the daughter of James and Aun Hadley of Newberry. Clinton county. They settled on a farm adjoining his father's ou the enst. In 1822 he was elected collector of state revenue and county levy and for the first year received for his compensation fifty-four dollars. The next year he received seventy dollars. He continued in the discharge of the duties of this office for a period of twenty years. In 1824 he sold his farm and settled in Wilmington, where he entered into partnership with a Mr. Fife under the firm name of Fife & Haworth. Later he entered into business on his own responsibility. He took great delight in raising cattle and was the first to Import into the county the Shorthorn cattle, about 1835. For some time he was in partnership with Isfah Morris in buying and selling land. His devoted wife died in April, 1851, and in 1858 he was married to Sarah Clark of Richmond, Indiana, the daughter of Samuel Stubbs, an early pioneer from the state of Georgia.

George D. and Edith ( Hadley) Haworth had eight children, the three eldest of whom died in early childhood : Mary married Samuel R. Glass; Caroline E. married Robert D. Harland; George D., Jr., was the father of Frank W .; James Mablon was a government inspector of Indian affairs; and Edith Emma married Laming R. Moody, of Wilmington. George D. Haworth survived his second wife but two days. After four days' illness he died on June 20, 1851. His remains were laid at rest in the Dover cemetery.

George D. Haworth, Jr., grew up in Wilmington, but enrly In life immigrated to Ft. Scott, Kansas, where he made a great deal of money in trading with the Osage Indians. He inherited a part of the farm where his son, Frank W., now lives in Union township and added more to it until he owned one hundred and sixty acres. In 1874 he built # tine brick house on his place in which his son now lives. His wife, Rebecca L. Hogue. was the daughter of Asn Hogue, who came with his parents from Virginia to Clinton county in early days, Asa Hogue became a merchant In Wilmington and in 1846 operated a large store at the corner of Locust and South streets, where the Citizens National Bank is now situated. All of the members of his family were Quakers and he was the head of the Wilmington meeting for many years. His wife died when thelr daughter, Rebecca L. Hogue, was only one week old. and he never remarried. Rebecca

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L. (Hogue) Haworth had one sister who died when small, but she was the only child who grew to maturity. George D. Haworth, Jr., was a prominent Republican in Clin- ton county and served as commissioner for some time, filling the office with rare credit and efficiency. He also was township trustee of I'nion township. Both he and his wife were elders in the Wilmington meeting of the Friends church and strict in their religious belief. He was a very successful farmer and made great progress with Poland China hogy. George D., Jr., and Rebecca L. ( Hogue) Haworth had four children, of whom Frank W. was the third born. The others were: Laura, who married J. W. Sparks, n banker and merchant of Wilmington; James B., who is state agent for a plow com- pany at Des Moines, Iowa ; and George D., who is proprietor of Sparks Hardware Com- jny. of Wilmington.

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History of Clinton County, Ohio Its People, Industries, and Institutions, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, Part 89

Author: Albert J. Brown (A.M.) Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Chicago : W.H. Beers & Co. Number of Pages: 1108

Author: Albert J. Brown (A.M.)
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago : W.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1108